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Electronic Course Reserve and Program Materials


The materials below are exclusively for OSEA Program Participants. Documents are in MS Word or PDF designed for download. All rights are reserved and all other use requires the written consent of OSEA.

 
Welcome OSEA 2013 Participants!      Revised Roster, April 25, 2013

 

Name	School	Program	Start Date	Airport Depart	Airport Arrival
Alicia Buckenmeyer	Viriginia	Maya	Jun 18	DET	CUN
Olivia Broslawsky	Tulane	Ethno	Jun 9	LAX	CUN
Perry Mcaninch	Indiana Univ B	SELT	Jun 23	IND	CUN
Ayesha Rashid	SF State Univ	Health Healing 1	Jun 09	SFO	MID
Christina Ramirez	Cal State Long Beach	Health Healing 1	Jun 09	LAX	CUN
Tim Knowlton	Berry College	Health Healing 1	Jun 09	ATL	MID
Jamie Fields	Stetson Univ	Health Healing 1 & Span 2	Jun 02	Orlando	CUN
Kelsey Smith	Indiana Univ B	Health Healing 2 & Span 5	Jun 23	IND	CUN
Samantha Guzman	Indiana Univ NW	Health Healing 2 & Span 3,4,5	Jun 23	CHI	CUN
Hunter Guthrie	W State Col Univ	Health Healing 2 & Span 5	Jun 23	BELIZE	by BUS
Emily Gookin	Clemson	Health Healing 2	Jun 30	??	??

Pre-Departure Reading Instructions and Course Preparation

Please Carefully Review this To Do Check List

In late April we will be sending you DVD with OSEA course materials.  On this disk you will find Maya Language materials and readings for the seminar on heritage, SELT, the methods class, and a set of additional readings on topics such as Yucatec ethnography and history, tourism, heritage, ethnography of archaeology, visual anthropology, and more.   Today, you may find these additional materials interesting or not, overwhelming or not, useful or not.  It is there for you in case that you may at some future time want or need it. It is a resource that you should appreciate.

There are a lot of readings on this disk.  At OSEA we feel that it is important as researchers and scholars in training for you to develop solid and basic instincts of, approach toward, and attitudes for intellectual work.  There will always be more readings, more books, more citations… more than you can read, more than you can mentally accommodate, more than what you can accomplish.  It is a resource that you should appreciate.

One aspect of most all careers is the need to be able to work both as an individual and with a team.  At a more appropriate moment on-site, we will discuss your opportunity to design a collaborative research project with another researcher participant.  More to the point:  In the seminar classroom context we will need to work together as a team.  What this means is that once on-site we will develop a reading schedule such that you will only be responsible for reading and commenting on the assigned texts on alternate days.  This system of reading also builds on collaboration amongst the seminar participants, so that you will be asked to work with a partner to read and present seminar materials.  All this will be explained in the initial meetings once we are all in Pisté. Our purpose in explaining this to you now is to assuage your worries and anxieties of having to read ALL of what is on this DVD now before the program or even while in México! 

On a final note, please continue to review the OSEA web pages that offer help you prepare for the program, from supplies like sleeping in hammocks, batteries, software, luggage & packing recommendations, to travel about Cancun, insurance and so on.

We look forward to meeting you and working with you to develop the best summer experience of your life to date.

Quetzil Castañeda
Founding Director

quetzil@osea-cite.org